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Translation of fable in Spanish:

fable

fábula, n.

Pronunciation /ˈfeɪbəl//ˈfeɪb(ə)l/

noun

This reminds me of the moral from an Aesop fable about a scorpion that gets a ride across a river on the back of a frog, but stings the frog to death before they get to the other side.

The folktales include stories about animals, fairy tales, fables with moral lessons, Buddhist legends, and stories about historical figures.

Children are irresistibly drawn to stories, and we use them to instill all the most important ideas about the human community, its daily dangers and rules, plus moral fables about how to succeed and be happy.

The Bible, in keeping with other ancient Near Eastern cultures, includes a book of proverbs, and in the Book of Kings we read of the parable of the trees who gathered to elect a king - a natural rather than an animal fable.

It's an odd but satisfying little fable about loss and loneliness.

By placing extreme emphasis on the moral of each tale, stories such as the tale of Sukanya and Sunisa and the Aesop's fables seek to foster a particular code of behavior and attitudes in the children of Thai immigrants.

The book is an anthology of moral fables told by mystics such as Ramakrishna and Ramana Maharshi: an interesting idea for a collection.

One animal in these fables is as clever as the fox, wise as the owl, and diplomatic as the rabbit.

Some things, it seems, never change for the entrepreneur who appears to relish his role in a strange high-tech version of that old fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

Corvids such as Crows, Ravens, and Jackdaws were more complex characters in Aesop's fables because they could be both vain and foolish, a powerful combination to be sure.

In the 6th century BCE the Greek author Aesop wrote his timeless fables - short narratives in which animals are the central characters and the aim is to convey a moral message.

However even if we doubt the validity of the morals proposed, crude fables frequently remain eloquent pieces of short prose.

Children were once told fairytales, myths, legends and fables because they had a meaning, a moral or a special psychological relevance.

In The Phaedrus Plato recounts a fable whose moral is the bad effects of writing, a moral deriving from the choice he makes in thinking to resolve the dilemma that writing poses.

Likewise the use of animals as human stand-ins turns the tales into Aesop-like fables with a modern, existential twist.

These fables are clearly stories because they not only lay out propositions about the world but also meet the narrative requirement of storytelling - moralising closure.

The Nun's Priest tells one of the best tales, a beast fable with a moral lesson.

They also appear, imbued with human attributes, in myths and fables, making them key agents in the teaching of indigenous manners and codes of behavior.

This lesson through gods and legends is a fable for adults regarding faith and truth in oneself.

Buddha Stories is a collection of animal fables that teach the moral principles of Buddhism.